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VOLUME XXIII
COMANCHE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1?10
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NUMBER 24
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For Killing N«»r Ruin# St^r-Co-
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Sflij'* Evidence.
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Eistland,. Texas. Feb. 10.—
The jury in the Sam Grant mur-
der 'ciad roturued a verdict of
guilty in the Aral degree and
fixed bi* puniahment at death.
Grant i* charged with the mur-
der uf R. L Oate* near Riaing
Star in February of laat year.
Oates wa* a lonely traveler who
was' coming from Ranger to
Brownwood. It was supposed
that he had u large sum of money
and was followed for part of two
days by Sam' Grant and Bert
Carter, who overtook and shot
him a few miles out from Rising
Star, pn the Eastland road.
Carter turned- state's evidence
and tells of the killing, the pur-
pose of which was robbery.
thirty-four
Success.
ever better
lore Block*
lis ininita-
Ihods have
!>e, and his
growing
capacity
erformance
and" no
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Irunce here
r 1
The Pioneer
The truthfulness of the state
ment tkiat "murder will out” has
been demonstrated in the trage-
dy enacted near Riaing Star
just a year this month. Our
readers will remember how an
old ana lonely traveler was most
fdully murdered in broad day
light as be was peacefully wind-
ing his way toward Brownwood
in a buggy drawn by a little
burro. The officers suspected
robbery as the cause of the kill-
ing becauso rumors were afloat
that the old man bad been seen
with a large sum of money and
his pockets were turned wrong
Side out when found in a dying
and unconscious condition. Vari-
ous rutnors^wero afloat concern-
ing two men who were seen
hurrying away from the scene
of the murder just before the
wbunded man was discovered,
and with this as a clew the
officers of Eastland county work-
ed unceasingly until suspicion
was fastened upon two young
men fifth* community aud their
arrest was secured, but the
-grand jury- UiU*d U>
dictments ugsinst tlieui. A
subsequent grand Jury found
they had followed him all tl.i
afternoon or at least uatil about
night, when they saw OaU put
up for the night at Levy Cosart’s
and that on their return home on
the evening of the I7th this plan
to up the trail of Oat# }h*
next morning and murder him
waa formulated.
, The state offered several wit-
uwss«« Tue|day as to circum-
stance* leading up to the killing
aud not until the co defendant
Carter wcut on the stand wa*
any couuection shown for Cure
us to tha dufendant’s connection
with tho crime.
Immediately after the killing
in February, 1900; Hert 04rter
and Sam Grant were arrested,
and latter at an examination in
Bastland they were remartded to
the custoday of the sheriff to
await the action of the grand jury
The July, 1909, grand jury failed
to indict Carter and .Grant, and
they were discharged. Out the
January, 1910, grand ^uxy la
dieted them and they were re
arrested.
About two weeks ago the dis-
trict attorney made an agree
ment with Carter to turn state's
evidence, in which event Carter
would not be" proaecuted. The
Grant case was called for trial
Monday j)f this week and on
Tuesday afternoon Bert Carter
testified at length, giving details
of the plot and of the trailing of
the victim. Of the actual killing
he testified as folpfiws: v 0
“The old mai/.was coming
down the big roadP'Shd wq were
htinting a place .to bide, and
there was a tree top there and
Sam says this is the place, and
he got bohind that tree top and
broke off a little limb and I got
down west of him, standing in
an (fpe'n place, and some troes to
my side on the cast side of me.
In a few minutes the old man
came along and Sam shot him,
and when lie pitched forward I
rnu about twenty yards, I reck-
on, and Sam hollered wait, and I
looked (seels and he—was guing
over the fence to' the old man
me*
his gun. After we bad gotten
home Sam told me be would
ESS*
come over there in a wagon and
we would go to toWn. We had
siogle barrel shotguns, 12 guuge,
.that morning when the old man
was killed. They were breach
loaders, Twaa using new club
cartridges. I think I got them
from Mr. Bowles. Sam Grant
used Winchester cartridges.
Saia Grant shot old man Oats
with a 12-gauge shotgun, with
No. 2 shot."
Grant is beiug represented in
THE ABJOINING C0TNTIE8
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Among
Interesting Happenings
Our Nearest Neighbors.
Briefly Told.
Profs. A. S. and Patrick Henry
wifi open a business college at
Cisco . j
A Poindexter ciufi of 170 mem-
bers haa bken orgonized at Steph-
en vllle. •.' . j
Start Work at Onee.
Work on the Frisco's exten-
sion from Brady to Menardvtlle
in to start at onco. The Sharpe
Contracting company, which haa
the oonlrnct for the first seven-
teen and one-half miles of the
road along the ' Brady creek
bottom, has been given the con-
tract for the remainder of the
line into kienardville and Us
soon as tho-oontractors complete
this portion of the line they will
COMANCHE COUNTY NEWS
Interesting News Happenings as ->
Reported by Our Corres-
pondents.
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DOODLE VI LLE
Feb. 10—0. A. McAllily made
a business trip to Bibb Satur-
day.
Eld. Head, of Bluff dale, preach-
Villi) VIUI1 U1 Vll«3 11UC MIOJ wm — .---------------’ •
lake up the codntruction of the od Chapel Sunday nUcbt.
Grant is boiug represented in ijddie McAdbn died of smalTl remainder. Miss Lena Martin and Looni®
this trial by Messra. Stubblefield lD(liail Creek, Brown Eaginers have also located the Reed was in Comanche on bus!
_ t ..I.llo IKa utiitn ia M • • I'nulo fats* tha avLintinn fritm 0088 DjlvQrU&J<
and Patterson, while the state-is
represented by Hon. W. P.
Mahaffey, district attorney ; and
IX G. Hunt.
Grant is a young man 24 years
old and is married, having a wife
abd three children, and reside*
in the southern.part of Eastland
county, within a few miles off the
place of the killing.
The defense fif Grant is alibi,
it being shown by his mother
aud other members of the family
that he waa not gouo from homo
either on the afternoon of the
17th or tho morning of the 18th
of February, 1909
Emlk District Csurt
The case otrtho state vs. J. K.
Bailey, charged with murder, is
set for Feb. 21, add a special
venire of 40 men orderdq^ .
W. T. Carlton was appointed
special judge to try the case of
Ohio Oxford, charged wl^b rape
set for Monday. The prosecu-
trix having moved out of the
limits of the state, the case was
dismissed.
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bills against them and after their
arrest Bert Carter turned state’s
evidence and made a clean breast
•pf the whole affair. The follow-
ing dispatch from Eastland gives
Carter 'a statement.
Jtt.silaiuK Texas, Feb. 10.—A
sensation was- sprung by the
state here yesterday in the case
of the State of Texas vs. Sam
Grant, charged with the mur-
der of a man by the name of Oats,
when Bert Carter, a co defend
ant, turned state’s evidence and
testitled against Grant.
In February, 1909, an old man
by the name of.Oats was travel-
ing thru the country in a south-
erly direction, driving a burro
hitched to a buggy with no top
on it.■-He had his beddipg with
him and would etojp at.night and
stay all night vtfith whoever
would take him in.. On the night
of Feb. IT Oats stayed all night
at the home of Sam Grant and
on the night of the Ibtb be stay
Levy CozortV
further autl stopped, and in a
few mindlel he came on dowu
there and we tore out in - a run
jind taken down the branch,
running northeast, and went in
to another pasture. We taken
a near cut then through. Ahem
pasturos home.
We got home about 12:80 or I
o’clock. It was about 12.80
After the shot was fired and old
man Oats hod been shot, In go-
ing homo then, wo went fast;
p fruity lapidly. We run most of
tho way until We got about half
way, and then we walked pretty
rapidly ail the way ; kind of a dog
trot. Sam Grant gave me' some
of the- indney. He divided the
money. I' believe there was
aliax .and he divided it up
equally.
"After the gun w&s fired 1 did
not go back to the road to seo
about the old man. Sum went to
him. I saw him when he got
over tha fence and started to
ward the old man, and I was
about twenty yards, 1 reckon,
aud ho hollered for me to stop,
Governor Campbell Mocked
the trial of Ms j. T. E. Durham
at Hillsboro! a at week by refus-
ing to giant citizenship to sever-
al ex-convicts who were the only
witnesses against Durham on
charge of murder in beating* a
convict to death "With a strap in
Hill county several . years ago
while Durham had charge of the
convict farm. Governor Camp-
hall is criticised especially be-
cause of his being distantly re-
■ Durham. One of the ex-
convicts who was denied citizens-
county, last Friday.
FfSfik charged
with forgery, was acquitted in
district court at Eastland.
Hamilton is getting along nice-
y ip raising the $80,000 bonus
for the railroad from Temple.
The Texas Central rai'lroad
will build'a viaductover one of
the street crossings at Dublin.
A Stock company lias been or-",
ganixed at Cisco and tho Collie
Printinf Co. and the Cisco Round
Up consolidated.
Mayor Looney of Brownwood
will issue a proclamation setting
aside s whole week in March for
the purpose of thoroughly clean-
ing up the town.
Prof. Hart has organized about
sixty of the boys in school into
a military company and gun#
havs been purchased for them
—Goldthwait® Eagle.
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The committee to secure right-
of way for the Brownwood and
Msv’ railroad is having slow
progress,'as property owners
are not'anxious to deed lands to
company.
The city council this week
voted to ®ct in conjunction with
the county authorities In paving
the public, square aud also the
streets for one blcok each way.
—Stephenville Trioune.
The Mid-Winter Bible School
which closed in Brownwood last
week raised $300 for the Zephyr
Baptist church which has just
been rebuilt following the dis-
aster of the cyclone last May.
*Htrmn—1 WilliwllO Ht'>o<l
route for the extension from
Brady to Maaoh in' the direction
of Sau Antonio uud is expected
th.it the extension will be pushed
beyond Mason to Oomfort and
thence to San Antonio, but the
route has been surveyed only as
far as Mason.
'i Prison Boots Wrong.
Tho report of tile auditors who
went over the books and accounts
of the Texas penitentiaries show
that the books are in a miserable
atte&pt at
shape with .little
bookkeeping. Theaccounts are
found to be falsified and padded
and during the Jast nine years
for two and a half years no re
cords were kept, though a half
mUiian dollars of supplies were
bought during this^ime.
The state railroad is shown’ to
be absolutely worthless and
drain on the state.
The penitentiary system was
run at a loss utjd.il Campbell be-
come governor, since then R has
huen gaining.
ness Saturday.
Several of tho young people,
of Gu stine and Lamkin, attended
tho singing at tfie Chapel Sun-
day.
E. C. Estes And family and
Mi#..Re®d vis‘rted H. P. Jones
girth family Monday returning
home Tuesday, ..
Mrs. Mary McCarty wai call-
ed to the bedaide ol her grand-
son, Noel Palvador, near Dublin
Monday. 8he returned Tae®-
day and he ports hiq^ better.
ship, was Dore Guest, who was
seut to the penitentiary from
Eratb county. ' __ •
At Cleburne Sunday night M.
T. Taylor, while drunk, entered
tbo home of H. W. Chambless,
who killed him, thinking he was
a burglar._> '
New Yorkers, through Gover-
nor Hughes will present Com-
mander I\ ary the $10,000 purse
raised by citizens as a national
testimonial to theexplorar. •
Tho French steamer Geu.
Chanzy was wrecked off the
ed all uigbt at ----------------
The testimony showed that 'aud I ludked around and be was
Grant tbbugbt that Oats had cyn-
■lderable money on his person,
as Oats bad told Grant that
going over the fence, I wanL on a
llUle piece from there and stop
TRnJTmd
raited,
but a few minute® before he
camera I reckon I wan about
in'®
count of northern Africa Satur-
day and l&G lives w^relost. „__
Hogs sold at $8.76 In Fort
Worth Monday.
Theodor# Roosevelt, Jr,, will
Many Miss Eleanor Butler Alex-
ander of New York. " ~
“Gulvcstou remains second of
the ports of the country in the
voiue otexports, nod iu aggre-
gate foreign opin’ioerce In tbo
last calendar year was $27,000;-
000 greater than Unit or all the
Pacific ports. ’
Rgpublieag^dub# are prepar
-H-'escvelt
fifteen'nteps from Bam Grant
when he'fired Urn gun. I was'
about ten or fifteen steps from
the road. He. was about the
same distance. The old man
wm aiUing up in his baggy
Thg 10 giw U onovelt .—great
aati«nai • »ceptiuu whan he re
tarns to tlifi* country June 0. ~
trial in dintrict court- at East-
land last week on a charge of
murdering Liston. Moo rehead at
Desdemona some monthB ago,
was acquitted by the juryl
Moorehead and Williams fought
aud the former 'was stabbed in
tke temple. ^
The Texas Central is making
preparation to move the division
now located at Cisco, to Pueblo,
or Rico, as it is commouuly
known, between Cisco and Mor-
an. The change is contemplated
with u view to equalizing the
division point# betweeu Walnut
Springs and Rolan.
The vital statisUca records of
Brown county show an increase
uf divorcee for Uie laat twelve
months. During the year there
were 22fi marriagu licenses issu-
ed and- 19 divorces granted.
According to this, every Pith
marriage ^annulled. Toe Sta-
tistics further,Show that there
are tour bijrtbs to ono death.
Mayor Baldwin is daily reoeiv
ing letters from the boys over
the country-for membership in
the Corn Club. He
names to Mr. Payne at Dublin
who now has over 800 boys on
The most inter
A piece of fruit o a k e was
tried” this afternoon in the
Bulletin office and pronounced
as good as any freshly made fruit
cake, though it was said to have
been made from cotton seed
meal instead of from flour' and
that there was no flour in it.
It was nice and light and no flavor
of the qil meal could be detected.
The cake was mnde at Ennis and
was sent to the Brownwood Oil
Mill. It is said that ginger cake
and many other things in. the cu-
linary line ate being made from
.. ,t i < >rj seed oil meal and tnat the
meal i's proving a fine substitute
for ilatfr. Brownwood Hulietian.
EDM A HILL. ----7—
Feb. 10.—Miss Maude'Hale of
Ebeqezer is visiting Miss Lula
Gee. .
Mr. Albert McCurdy and Mr.
Ed Salyers made a trip to
Stephenville last week.
Thejlittle snow that fell Thurs-
day morning was something pn-
usual, as the wind was almost
directly from the south.
Mr. and Mr*. Hale Lancaster
are visiting relatives St !lhia
place, as Mr. Lancaster’s scHocl
at Ebonez&r lias been suspended
for a few weeks on account of
measles and diptheria. >
Mr. and Mrs. A. Q. Harper
have returned from Chambers
county where Mr. Harper ha®
been in engaged in rice farming
the post year, and have located
with uf again. We extend to
them a hearty welcome. They
were also accompanied by their
daughter, Mrs. Hogan Steven-
son and children, who Will soon
join her husband at' Balmorhea
In the 'I’oyah vah«y, where they
expect to make their future
1........ Pnr in Prrur— _
—— tj ai :r®
At the recent corn show at
Omulia, F1^ C. Palin of Newton
I»d., won the $1,000 trophy.
The winnin* ear was grown on a
5)0-ncro field and was nearly all
corn, v^ry little cob. The keVn-
els are 3-4 of an inch deep and
in absolutely perfect rows. Corn
authorities say it is the most
perfect ear of corn ever produc-
ed ill the world. Fbr this ear
of corn $1,200 has tieen offered
and refused. .
BurgUrsvdynainited the vadlt
iu the Flr®t Nktional Bank at
Mct;vdi«e -h'unaav night, and
shot uud wound ad a man who
run to the bank after'Rearing
his list.
cre»*-trf~th^ ,sear will oocux at
the end of tliia con test find every
member of the Club will be
ahead in experience whether be
wins a prize or -not.—Stephenville
Empire
J. H. Vaughn, an enterprising
and well-to-do farmer living two
miles north of DeLeon, sent ten
cars of corn to the Corn Growers
Association, which met recently
in Dallas and receives first prize
for the best 10 ears of corn raised
in Texas, Louisanti, and Arkans
a®. The prize received wa® $25
Mr. Vaughn raised from 40 to 75
bushels per acre last year.'—Free
Press.,
The Assistant sapenntendenf
ursuju m of Chicago schools say 5,000
sends "Elf -children in that city go to school
each day hungry, and thatlO.OpO
are not properly nourished.
•Senator G*fflnn«n lis® offered
G M. Moore want® your trade]
for hardware.
*® . a
damages where the patrons are
injured while intoxicated.
—Bob Smith's new rwidcno® in
the weefierBLtiart of town ia near-
ing completion.
nos* .school rtorse
Feb. 10.—Mise Maud LowdeiC
Im been very sick.
Mrs. Do.a Mattux js very
sick.
Grandma Willlanks is very
8i(ck this week..
The A-arty at Dee Jones’®
Satu rday ilight was well attend-
ed.
Several from here attended
the singing at Palmer Sunday.
Jess Willbanks and famiiy
visited his father, W. Willbanks,
Sunday.
IraTurnbow and family were <
the guest of Mra. Bettie Buchan-
an Sunday. • .. .-
Mr. Bob HayndW and family
were the guests of F. M . Love
Saturday night and Sunday.
We have had some pretty |
weather this week, and tb®
farmers ard busy sowing grain.
Mrs..EdnaAskew of Purvla
ha® been visiting her pareuts.
Mr. and Mrs. BerlCaudle^ this,
week.—Oor. in Progress.
Several thousand delegate®
will attend the state Methodist
Laymen's Conference at Dalis®
a hill in oongras® jEakigg saloon John W. Gated, the “great
keepers responsible in suit® for financier, Is mentioned as thw
republican cabdtdat® for jipver-
nor of Texas.
Fifty passengers were drown*
led in the wreck of thesteamer
f Ldno off the oo®t of Chili Friday.
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Adams, Jesse M. The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1910, newspaper, February 18, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009001/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.